A forest offers multiplicity and symbolic meaning. Bring questions into this space and you will receive a reply, though not an answer.
Deep Terrain
Author: Joanna Baker
Joanna's first murder mystery novel was reviewed as "outstanding' in The Age, Melbourne. Her current book, The Slipping Place, is a multi-layered page-turning murder mystery, set in Hobart, available in all Australian bookshops and online. Learn more at joannabakerauthor.com. "I'm a sixth-generation Tasmanian, deeply attached to the place. I'm also deeply attached to murder mysteries of all kinds."
Lingering before something that is worthy and beautiful
When we encounter something beautiful and ambiguous we should hesitate, slow down.
A Curious and Fascinated Darkness
"Am I the one who is sitting, or am I the stone?"
All that is far-flung, strange and unverifiable
Unutterably beautiful. In myth and in history, Tasmania is thought of as secret, remote and strange.
A thought about kindness
Please remember this. From The School of Life.
Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) by Lao Tzu
It is the way of Heaven not to speak, and yet it is skilful in obtaining a reply. It does not call, and yet men come to it of themselves.
The Mind of God
We have come so far. Can science ever explain everything?
The mystery of the presentÂ
The riddle of the present is the deepest of all the riddles of time. Paul Tillich.
Absolute Silence
In the face of the ineffable, we can find no thoughts or words.
The Munchausen Trilemma
Eventually logic always fails.
The Absent Answer 